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PART 1: THE FIRST 99.93% OF HUMAN HISTORY

Chapter 1: Last Hominin Standing: Migration, Settlement, and Agriculture to 6000 Years Ago

Chapter 2: Building Complex Societies, 9000 to 1500 BCE

PART 2: REGIONAL WEBS AND THEIR FUSION INTO THE OLD WORLD WEB, 3500 BCE TO 200 CE

Chapter 3: The Southwest Asian Web: Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, 3500 BCE to 200 BCE

Chapter 4: From Nile to Ganges: An Expanding Web, 3000 BCE to 200 BCE

Chapter 5: Building the Old World Web: Persia, Greece, and the Hellenistic World, 600 BCE to 200 CE

Chapter 6: Weaving an East Asian Web, 5000 BCE to 200 CE

Chapter 7: The West End of the Old World Web: Carthage, Rome, and the Mediterranean World, 800 BCE to 200 CE

Chapter 8: On the Frontiers of the Old World Web: Africa and Europe to 200 CE

Chapter 9: The Indigenous Americas, Australia, and Oceania before 1000 CE

PART 3: MATURING WEBS, 200 TO 1400 CE

Chapter 10: The West End of the Old World Web: New Patterns of Power and Faith, 200 to 800

Chapter 11: The East End of the Old World Web: China and Its Neighbors, 200 to 1400

Chapter 12: Forging an Indian Ocean World: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa, ca. 200 to 1400

Chapter 13: The West End of Eurasia and West Africa, 800 to 1400

Chapter 14: The Indigenous Americas and Oceania, 1000 to 1500

PART 4: WEAVING THE GLOBAL WEB, 1400 TO 1800

Chapter 15: Convergence: The Discovery of the Oceans and Biological Globalization, 1400 to 1800

Chapter 16: Disruption: Africa, the Americas, Siberia, and Oceania, 1492 to 1850

Chapter 17: Cultural Upheavals: Religious and Intellectual Movements, 1500 to 1750

Chapter 18: University of War: Empires and Power, 1450 to 1800

Chapter 19: The First Global Economy, 1500 to 1800

PART 5: REVOLUTIONS, 1640 TO 1920

Chapter 20: The Best and Worst of Times: Atlantic Revolutions, 1640 to 1830

Chapter 21: Fossil Fuels and Mass Production: Industrial Revolutions around the World, 1780 to 1914

Chapter 22: Two Liberations: The Vital Revolution and the Abolitions of Slavery and Serfdom, 1750 to 1950

Chapter 23: Nationalism and Imperialism: Tightening the Global Web, 1800 to 1930

Chapter 24: Making the World Modern: Confronting Industrialization, Nationalism, and Imperialism, 1850 to 1920

PART 6: THE GLOBAL WEB SINCE 1870

Chapter 25: International Politics: War, Peace, and Ideologies, 1870 to 1940

Chapter 26: World War II: Global War in the Global Web, 1937 to 1945

Chapter 27: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945 to 1991

Chapter 28: Rebalancing the Global Web: Africa, Latin America, and the Rise of East Asia since 1960

Chapter 29: A Shrinking World: Globalization since 1980